July 10, 2007

Marc Andreessen’s 11 lessons learned about blogging

I think I’m a blogger without a niche.  I started this blog to help build awareness of Babble Soft.  People typically think that I should spend my time reading mommy blogs, but I find that I gravitate to business, technology and entrepreneurship blogs.  For instance, I happened upon Marc Andreessen’s blog a few weeks ago and simply downright enjoy what he writes about!  Marc was a co-founder of Netscape, and his blog raised in the ranks so quickly that he recently got overwhelmed with the time it takes to moderate comments so he’s no longer accepting comments.  He writes on entrepreneurship, lessons learned, venture capital, his experiences and his new venture Ning.  Reading what he writes reminds me of my first entrepreneurial endeavor and all the ins and outs of working with VCs and large customers.  I was even able to contribute a few things to the discussion.  I hope he opens up comments again but in the meantime check out his latest post on Eleven lessons learned about blogging, so far.   I really need to learn more about StumbleUpon.  Oh where or where does the time go???

I still have a lot to learn about blogging myself and right now I’m trying to figure out where I fit in.  I like to write about babies, parenting, business, entrepreneurship, women, and random funny stuff.  I’m not particularly drawn to the stereotype mommy blogs.  I am attracted to blogs written by knowledgeable women whether they are mothers or not.  You can see from my blogroll that the women-led blogs I visit frequently are: eMomsatHome, Burningbird, and The Lactivist.

Now if I can just figure out how to make sufficient money from blogging to put towards future development of applications for Babble Soft, this just might work out!

 Aruni

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3 Responses to “Marc Andreessen’s 11 lessons learned about blogging”

1. July 10th, 2007 at 3:35 pm, HumanityCritic Says:

   I agree with you, I dig a lot of what Marc Andreessen has to say on his blog..

2. July 14th, 2007 at 3:19 pm, admin Says:

   Thanks HumanityCritic. Sorry about the delay in posting your comment…it got caught by Akismet spam. We are also moving to a self hosted wordpress blog!

3. July 15th, 2007 at 10:44 pm, Carole Hayes Says:

   Thanks for the link! I’m new to the whole blogging thing and am really just testing the waters with a joint blog that my husband and I use mostly for a journal. Once I get a better feel for it I’ll be starting my own blog, so I’m trying to amass a stockpile of helpful tips, such as these for later….

   : )